Neter@s: Research Corner has been on hiatus while H-Net underwent an update and bugs were being fixed. However, I am still learning the new system, so please bear with me as the technical team and I work through issues that may still arise (you may have noticed all of the images that were uploaded separately for this post--previously that activity would not have appeared in your feeds). While waiting, I have accumulated a huge pile of blog posts to upload. Even still, I am soliciting new posts about your summer research! Please contact Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or at this Google
Today I am pleased to publish another post that might help U.S. Americans who are unable to leave the country but are looking to maintain an active research agenda. Can you help contribute to this discussion on Research Corner? Or do you have other ideas about research in or on Latin America that you would like to publish? I am nearing the end of my pile of edited drafts and hope to receive more in December or January to get me set up for the spring. If you’re interested, please contact Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form.
Justin Castro is an
I am pleased to begin a two-part series on maternal and infant health in Brazil. Cari Maes is an assistant professor of History at Oregon State University. She earned her Ph.D. in modern Latin American history at Emory University. Her research focuses on the rollout of Brazil’s first national maternal and infant health system during the era of Getúlio Vargas. She has recently written about the connections between infant mortality discourses in this period and rhetoric surrounding COVID-19 mortality. Her current book project took her to the IFF/BibSMC where she investigated the
El día de hoy tengo el gusto de presentar un post sobre la Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá. Si le gustaría contribuir a este blog también, favor de llenar este Google Form.
Juan Pablo Angarita Bernal es profesional líder de la Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá, BibloRed. Es historiador y literato con maestría en Historia. Ha trabajado en proyectos de difusión radial y musical como Radio Pachone y el Festival Distritofónico. Es co-curador de la exposición "Radio Sutatenza: una revolución cultural en el campo colombiano (1947-1994)” del Banco de la República. Ha trabajado en la Biblioteca
Gretchen Pierce is Associate Professor of Latin American History and the 2020-2021 Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-editor of Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (University of Arizona Press, 2014) with Áurea Toxqui, and has published a number of articles, book chapters, and academic blog posts on temperance in Mexico. In addition to serving as an editor on H-LatAm and founding this blog, she is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Altered States: Mexico’s Anti
Today we conclude our two-part series looking at the many archives and libraries associated with Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. If you missed the first helpful post, click here. If you would like to contribute to this blog as well, please express your interest here.
Sam Holley-Kline is Dean’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of History at Florida State University. He is currently working on his first book project, tentatively titled "In the Shadow of El Tajín: Labor and Landscape on a Mexican Archaeological Site,” and has published recent work in A
Happy 2021, H-LatAmist@s! If you have not seen Research Corner’s end-of-year review, please check it out. I’ve got an interesting set of posts lined up for you for the next few months, but I could use more contributions. If you’re interested in sharing your research experiences for the good of the community or promoting the archive/library, physical or digital, that you work at, please fill out this Google Form.
I am pleased to begin another two-part series on transnational research. Lisa Pinley Covert is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the history department at the
Gretchen Pierce is Associate Professor of Latin American History and the 2020-2021 Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-editor of Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (University of Arizona Press, 2014) with Áurea Toxqui, and has published a number of articles, book chapters, and academic blog posts on temperance in Mexico. In addition to serving as an editor on H-LatAm and founding this blog, she is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Altered States: Mexico’s Anti
I am pleased to continue our three-part series on both how scholars can collaborate to increase their research output and on transnational work on the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. If you missed the first post, please click here. Andrae Marak is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & Graduate Studies and a Professor of History and Political Science at Governors State University. Laura Tuennerman is a Professor of History at California University of Pennsylvania. They are co-editors (with Clarissa Confer) of Transnational Indians in the North American West (Texas A&M Press
Today we conclude our four-part series about the Centro Cultural Manuel Gómez Morin (CCMGM). The first post provided a short biography of Gómez Morin. The next two (see: here and here) summarized the materials available at the Centro. In the last post, I comment on my experiences as a user of this institution. And don’t forget to stay tuned, in two weeks, for the beginning of the series on digital repositories!
Gretchen Pierce received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Latin American history. She is the co-editor of Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural